RENTON, Wash.  To his back is a floor-to-ceiling window with a view of Mercer Island across Lake Washington, the shore of which is hardly a football field away.

In front of him is a seafood wrap, a bottle of water and the ongoing challenge of proving he can be an NFL football player.

Heath Farwell is sitting in the cafeteria inside the magnificent headquarters of the Seattle Seahawks. He’s eating lunch and talking -- about all that has happened since he left San Diego State almost a decade ago and about what might yet occur.

“To be undrafted, to be sticking around this league, going into my 10th year,” he says. “I’ve seen a lot of players come and go. I’ve seen a lot of great players -- better than me -- sitting at home. I’m going to play this game as long as I can. When it’s my time, it’s my time. When it is my time, I’ll be very happy. If I get cut tomorrow, I have nothing to be ashamed of.”

The conversation has turned to this, and Farwell’s eyes are momentarily misty and he is rocking almost imperceptibly, because he is in a fight for his career. Farwell dismisses the idea it is the fight of his career, because he’s pretty much made a career of fighting for his career.

About Farwell

Heath Farwell

Age: 32

Position: Linebacker

Team: Seattle Seahawks

Undrafted out of San Diego State, where he was the Aztecs’ defensive and special teams player of the year in 2004.

Played four seasons for Minnesota Vikings, played with Seahawks since 2011.

Pro Bowl Special Teamer for NFC in 2009

Special team captain on Seahawks team that won Super Bowl XLVIII

“It’s just another grind; always competing,” he’d said a few minutes earlier. “Always different circumstances. When I was a rookie, it was nobody knew who I was, just trying to make a name for myself. Then it was a new coaching staff came in, and I had to start over. There have been very few years, might have been one or two where I felt somewhat comfortable. Every year it’s a battle to make the roster.

“As I get older, I’m still trying to convince them I’m still young . . . that I can still play with these young guys and play better than these young guys.”

Farwell is 32, which in NFL years, when talking about a backup linebacker who has made his living kicking ass on special teams, is equivalent to somewhere around 67. There is a rookie linebacker tearing it up in Seattle’s camp. The rookie would provide not just young legs but about $800,000 in cap savings.

Farwell knows that maybe, finally, this is the fight.

All he can do, he does know for sure, is what he’s always done.

“I’m going to make it the hardest cut they’ve ever had to do,” he says. “I’m going to leave it all out there. We’ll see what happens. I don’t know what the future holds. They’re trying to replace me, that’s the reality.”